Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

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.

Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows.

There is a warning love sends and the cost of it is never written till long afterward.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.