We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.

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.

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

I've always looked at friends as the family we choose.

I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.

an imitator is always a poor example.