MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

Having photographs around the house is fine - if they're royal and on the grand piano.

The English truly understand the dynamic between buildings and land.

New York in the 60s was amazing.

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed. Some, I have come through with more grace than others.

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered placesWhere crowds have been:.All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voiceOf whom, I do not know.

A good Christian, never take advantage of other people

God made all pleasures innocent.

Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

I don't have no... I love Lil Wayne. I grew up on the Hot Boys.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.