This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

The best thing you can do in life is to love unconditionally and endlessly.

The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'

The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.

My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

Since you may never discover the truth, invent it.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Actresses feel immense pressure to keep up. Nobody wants someone who doesn't know how to market themselves.