I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

I have no point in procrastinating any longer.

Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus.

And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

You will be perpetually unhappy if you continue to refuse to walk in your calling.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

You can't predict what's gonna happen, you can't predict if people are going to participate, you can't predict if there'll be interference.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.