I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

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

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !