Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?