Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

We all have special attributes that are of value to someone. Find your place of value. You are never useless. You just need to find your place.

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

A text pops up on the screen. It’s from Luis. I can’t help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out me

I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

I wanna know how many buttons I'm going to get at meet and greets now.