I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?