The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.