Love is everything it's cracked up to be

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.

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.