Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.