Be like water; water has form and yet it has no form. It is the softest element on earth, yet it penetrates the hardest rock.

“Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.” 

“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.” 

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

The great “deloading” phase. This is what I’m experiencing this afternoon, and it makes a Tuesday feel like a lazy Sunday morning. This is when the muse is most likely to visit. I need to get back to the slack.

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.

“Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.” 

I don't consider myself no attractive man. People like Tom Jones and Elvis Presley - I'm not nothing like that.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Wisdom usually grows up on us like calluses when we are old, gnarled and bent.

“Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.” 

“You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79” 

“This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.” 

“Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.” 

“Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.” 

“I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.