Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.