If you DJ reality, that is, if you make a mash-up of actual reality, you're going to end up with something that inevitably people will say, "This is feminist." Because you cannot avoid that.

Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.

It was very interesting to me that when Louisiana was destroyed in that flood the fundamentalists were very quick to say, it's the punishment of God on a sinful city. Now that the oil industry has been so hard hit in Galveston, are they up on their pulpits saying, God is punishing the oil industry? No, no, no!