The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

I went to school on a military base in Germany. I got a lot of my clothes at the army surplus store.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

I really wanted to do my own perfume because I mix my own oils, so it just made sense.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement, with almosts - even the rhymes are intentionally off.

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

Each time I think there is no place lower to go, I find that there is at least one place that will mess you up worse than you were.