I was unfaithful even to Infidelity.

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

We know that the adult in a certain sense has an attitude toward life exactly opposite to the attitude of commercials. Commercials say, 'Your longing for 3.2 beer is very important. Your longing for skin that doesn't have any wrinkles in it, that's very, very, very important.' The adult says, 'No, I've got wrinkles, so what?'

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

I am proud only of those days that pass in undivided tenderness.