He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

Will you come down and kiss me good night?

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

I've had chapters in my work life that have kind of coincided with the place I am in mine. I had the best-friend phase, and the pregnant-woman phase - for a while, I was pregnant in every movie.