it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.

I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.

There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.