Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.
The mark of a true crush. . . is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.
Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.