As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.

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

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

Surviving means being born over and over.