"We quickly discovered that two kittens were much more fun than one."

“I'm a woman in search on an adventure”

“Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.”

“What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things”

“Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.”

“Put no obstacle in her path and this will surely die a natural death; obstruct her, and it will give the situation an importance to worth fighting for.”

“Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.”

“I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.”

“Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical.”