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.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.

I never say I'm an "ist" of any kind unless I know how the other person is defining it.