I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.