The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

Love gives without taking

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.