What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

Love is serene and calm

tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.