Nothing creates such untruth in you as the wish to please.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.