I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce.

When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.