In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

Yesterday on CNN, Joe Biden said he hasn't made up his mind about whether he'll run for president in 2016. Which raises the question: 'Who was raising that question?'

When I got a record deal I said, 'I'm only wearing jeans. I'm not wearing frilly dresses.' Dancing around in sequins is just not who I am. I wanted to be heard, not seen.

I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.