I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.

If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

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

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.