Women like poetry. A soft word in their ears and they melt - a grease spot on the grass.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

It's sexy and beautiful to be strong.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

But I'm not looking forward to trying to strike out a lot of guys

It's not what you say, but what you do that defines your individuality

I’ve come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you’re feeling and then walk away like that.