Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

I don’t want to be remembered for my work. I want to be remembered for my love.

Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong.

Marriage is not a sales deal and you don't have to close it as fast as you can.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

I do wear wigs. ... I sometimes make the joke about me standing on a hilltop with my hair blowing in the wind - and me too proud to run after it.

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.