In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it.

Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.

I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.