Spring is the shortest season.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

I made a list of things I have to remember and a list of things I want to forget, but I see they are the same list.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover with sheets. [from "After an Absence"]

What we want is never simple.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

Grief is a circular staircase.

I regret the way pain has taught me nothing.

To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end, when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach, and the weather day after dayis flawless, and the forecastis hurricane.

No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

I'm a pundit. I'm, like, paid to be a narcissistic blowhard and be in front of the camera.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.

If you’re constantly open to inspiration, it will come to you. The worst thing a man can do is pressure himself into an idea.