Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

You can't win every week.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

There is no dream, and if there is, there is only one to see you my children struggling for the same and for which I am expected to be finished.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.