Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.

Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.

Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.