Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

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

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I look up at the stars in the nighttime, cold and white and sharp, I think they must smell like that.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.