Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can't, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you'd be a very strange person indeed.