No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

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.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

For some it takes a lifetime to find true love, But for the lucky ones a lifetime is merely enough to share the love they've found.

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

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.