I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.