What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Our lives are a picture of being overwhelmed by all kind of things going on in our lives and around us.

Knowledge is the life of the mind

When you're through changing you're through.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

In the past few months, I've become convinced of one thing: If I were a man, I'd be paid more.

Something brushed his leg, and he gazed down into the face of Pippi Tucker. The theme from Jaws raced through his head.