It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.