A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.

Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.