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.

sex is like sandwiches, there has to be something in between.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.