Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

In case you're an alien and you're reading this: BITE ME.