Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

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.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Kill what you can't save what you can't eat throw out what you can't throw out bury What you can't bury give away what you can't give away you must carry with you, it is always heavier than you thought.

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

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.