Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.