A book comes and says, 'Write me.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Wild nights are my glory!

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.