Whenever a people or an institution forget its hard beginnings, it is beginning to decay.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.