Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

You set goals in order to become the person it takes to achieve them

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

My real talent was for losing clients.

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

Sometimes the best results come when you are thrown in the deep end.