The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

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

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.