Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.