I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was something to be cultivated.

Mutually assured destruction.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Ah coffee. The sweet balm by which we shall accomplish today's tasks.

You're like this leopard who's pretending to be a house cat.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

He must have seen her shock, because he said, "You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

Be ambitious about things that last.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

When you cut into the present the future leaks out.