The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

I was the solitary plovera pencil for a wing-boneFrom the secret notesI must tiltupon the pressureexecute and adjust In us sea-air rhythm"We live by the urgent waveof the verse

the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

And I pray that the pieces of her broken world will come back together.

We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

The best way to fight stupidity, is by ignoring it.

Intensity builds immensity

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.