Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

We find our calling or it finds us, and it's a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

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