There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.