Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.

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.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.