I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

Not only can [business conflicts] not be ignored, it needs to be dealt with really front and center before he can conduct [Donald's Trump] presidency.

No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat

A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

As we Wizards go, I'm pretty harmless.