The older I get, the more I feel.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

Never underestimate your own ignorance.

I have no desire to drink anymore. I just don't want to feel altered.

The price of progress is trouble.

There is no difference in the destination, the only difference is in the journey.

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.

Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?