All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of.

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

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.