It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

A true writer should be able to write about any color. It's the story they tell that should affect people, not the race.

Not that easy to have tears in your heart but a smile on your lips.

Love is like a bullet in the flesh. It simply Burns.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

I'm not disappointed - just disappointed.

Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger My daughter as we walk together now. All my life I'll feel a ring invisibly Circle this bone with shining When she is grown.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.