The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

Poetry is fired by love.