Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

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 think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.

At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.