nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.

I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

The poor South. Already guilty of slavery, it became guilty of cigarettes.

being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart.

I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.

But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.

How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.

Every challenge is a disguised opportunity for salvation.

The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the very last season.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?