The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Positive impact, positive society.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

Like billiard balls colliding our courses were altered.

Be ambitious about things that last.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

The rain begins with a single drop.

There was a lot of anger among critics that I had not made a sexy movie.

Why sleep when there are books to read.