In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.

...Realization is born from error...

Motivate yourself, you can be great.

One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark.

He's better now, Loo. He's taking care of the cats.

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

When you are done changing, you're done.

He felt married to her, that was all.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.