I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

It is poetry that changes everything.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.