Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

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

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.