Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.