Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?

writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.

each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.

I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.