It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

I'm only interested in poetry.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all