That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!
The Eyes are the window to your soul
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
There are three people in yourself - who people think you are, who you think you are, and who you really are.
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.
It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.