I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire.

Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.

I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.