I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Solitude is un-American.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

in freeing myself from the romantic dream of finding another man to come along and rescue me, I learned that no one can rescue me except myself.