You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Literature is a luxury fiction is a necessity.

Be a leader you would follow.

If you don't have a plan, you will never find enough time to finish a task.

Making sensible choices is short-term thinking

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.