If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.

You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.