It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.

Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

All's well that carries on well

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate.

It's not terribly fun defending you (oil companies), but I do.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.