All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

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

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

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.