I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

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.

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

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.