I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.

Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

The biggest debt is always the government debt; it's always debt that government has run up on your behalf.

When I was 16 I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines. My main feedback came from my English teacher, Miss Bessie B. Billings, who said, 'I can't understand this at all, dear, so it must be good.