“Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”

It’s easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty – he has suffered longer.

Sex is an emotion in motion.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Don’t ever make the same mistake twice unless it pays.

I’m single because I was born that way.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.

I speak two languages, Body and English.

Men are my hobby, if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can’t ever take that away from you.

Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.

Religion is separate from the institution of the state.

There is no Kurdish state. But that shouldn’t prevent the Kurds from continuing to develop their own institutions. Still, the best thing for them would be to remain a part of Iraq, but in return we must treat them with respect – their nationality, their language and their culture.

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.

It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.

There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.

Did he take them literally? He paused and said, ‘Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.’

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.