I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

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.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.