Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

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

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.