For a poet, style is the only morality.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Greed stains our culture, soaks our sensibilities and has replaced grace as a sign of our intimacy with the divine.

I don't think a person should take herself seriously unless she is alone.

If it true that perception is reality, then what is shown on TV is that part of the collective consciousness known as Public Knowledge, that is, the fragment of reality which the mass of people acknowledge to be true.

Secrets of the heart are seldom news.

Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.