The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.