There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

I know that I was able to find my way out of most of my feelings by writing.

That was one of the problems with the Narcissus figure. Here is a face looking at a face, and the problem is the image of the thing is never actually the thing. You try and grab it and it's not there. It's water. It disappears.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.

I wouldn't underestimate the power of writing a letter.

I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.