Derek Walcott

Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.