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.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

Solitude is considered un-American.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

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

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.