You've got criminal courts and child welfare officials refusing to do their jobs and protect children so they can shift the cases over to family court where predatory professionals can turn a dirty buck off the atrocities committed against children.

When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.

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.

Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.