There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

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

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men.