Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]

Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.

Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

I just keep traveling and doing live shows.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.