Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

Security is the denial of life

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

My knees have always been ugly.

Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.