Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.

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