Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

A baby's mother also needs a mother.