The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.