I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.