Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

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.