Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.'

To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.