The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this., New York Times, April 19, 1992]

I am disabled but I'm not my disability. Disability is just a little piece of me but it is not my whole personality

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

There are always potential side effects for every vaccine.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.

Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence?

[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.