Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

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.

I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.