Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

Hattie.' Grace patted my arm. 'My cows sing better than you do.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.