In the early fight for women's rights, the point was not that women were morally superior or better. The conversation was about the difference between men and women - power, privilege, voting rights, etc. Unfortunately, it quickly moved to the "women are better" argument. If this were true in life or in fiction, we wouldn't have any dark or deep characters. We wouldn't have any Salomes, Carmens, Ophelias. We wouldn't have any jealousy or passion.

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

The proper study of Mankind is Everything.

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.