Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

Solitude is un-American.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

In any triangle, who is the betrayer, who the unseen rival, and who the humiliated lover? Oneself, oneself, and no one but oneself!