One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.

They will never believe that an ordinary girl could do such an extraordinary thing, ' Genevieve worried. 'What would I tell them? 'Tell them there is no such thing as an ordinary girl, said Bloom.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.

Stop trying to define who you are and just be.

The best New York in the world is driving down the [Pacific Coast Highway] listening to the Velvet Underground. That's the best time I've ever been to New York.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

No man was ever lost except for one reason: having once left his ground he has let himself become too permanently settled abroad.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.