I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

The mark of a good marriage is partnership and continuing to feel inspired by your spouse. I had that with Tao. But the end is not necessarily the tragedy. Staying in a relationship that is no longer working is the tragedy. Living unhappily - that's the tragedy.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

While we have the gift of life it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long-shot.

Life is a dream for the wise a game for the fool a comedy for the rich a tragedy for the poor.

Well I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal not what is illegal.