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

Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.

I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.