Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.

But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.

Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.