We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

If ambitious fantasies make people blush, and sexual fantasies make people blush and feel guilty, fantasies of violence and death may make people blush and feel guilty-and frightened too.

many of us are done with adolescence before we are done with adolescent love.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.