Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

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

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.