I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Poetry is any page from a sketchbook of outlines of a doorknob with thumb-prints of dust, blood, dreams.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

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.