That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.

Sometimes you have to risk orgive up some of your financialwealth to have a richer life.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

When I get through tearing a lobster apart, or one of those tender West Coast octopuses, I feel like I had a drink from the fountain of youth.

I feel the closest to crazy when I'm disagreeing with the voice in my head

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease.

The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves.