I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.