Remember son many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

I'm teaching myself to believe in things I don't understand, I don't even know if they're true, but that's what dreamers do.

Take care, you who wish / to deal with names / for love. Behind their sweetness / and wrath, nothing endures. / Nothing but wounds and kisses.

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.

It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.

I try not to do scenes a certain way, because then I become conscious of it, and it dosen't come off as realistic. I try to make it so that I'm not really aware of what I'm doing.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which tend to choke the meaning.