Poetry is fired by love.

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.

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

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.