I really admire medical people. They have a great sense of humour, and they just have to get on with it.

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

It's all about the confidence.

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

You might be a redneck if you prominently display a gift you bought at Graceland.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.