Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Don’t serve time. Make time serve you.

I absolutely think that hand-drawn animation is valid and I actually hope to do one in the future with a large budget.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.

You develop a bond that comes from spending too much time together.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

I'm not a ice cream, i'm a human being

If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.

The Guns, Thank God, The Guns.