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.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.