When people say of their tragedies, 'I don't often think of it now,' what they mean is it has entered permanently into their thoughts, and colors everything.

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

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

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

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.