Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

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.

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be