Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.