Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.
That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.