I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.