You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

Pleasure is terrifying because it breaks down the boundaries between people. Embracing passion means living with fear.