The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!

There are many other pleasures - besides the pleasure of physical union.

I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.

Make requests, not demands. "Please" kill that zombie, honey, I'm out of bullets.

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money to charity. It's my way of recycling; I feel like I can give back to the universe.