From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

Intense love always leads to mourning.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.

The unsaid, for me, exerts great power.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

I’m like the child who buries her head in the pillow so as not to see, the child who tells herself that light causes sadness—

When one makes you happy, the other makes you worried. Its just a balancing phenomena. So be the same person what ever the situation you are in.

Usually, ordinary histories don't get the emotional feel of a period. That's what a novel can do.

I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing I don't read is screenplays.

I believe, and that is that I am the strongest candidate to take it to the Republicans and win in November [2016].

My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

It's pretty unhealthy to obsess over what people think about you.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

I become quite obsessive when I get into something.