Eating is never so simple as hunger.

You can't be creative and still be a good girl.

Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.