To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.

if we pursue the arms race no other problem will be solved.

One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it.

Ignorance is the root cause of all difficulties.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.

Woman, if i was straight, i would steal you from him so hard.