I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.

I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.

I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

You are thirst and thirst is all I know

But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.

For me, every week is a fashion week.

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

I think the best-written films or television series have a measure of the opposite of what they are.

As you get older, it gets a bit harder to keep the spontaneity in you, but I work at it.

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that. We overlook too much in the beginning and wonder why we lost control in the end.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

money usually represents so much more than dollars and cents. It is tied up with our deepest emotional needs: for love, power, security, independence, control, self-worth.

I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.