You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

[To Oleg Cassini:] Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do ... I want all of mine to be original & no fat little woman hopping around in the same dress.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.