I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

I am a stranger to half measures.

I quickly learned that motherhood was a high wire act sometimes performed without a net.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

Love is going to replace life and from then on it's all smooth sailing. Love will replace life.

It was important, I know, for my father as a product of his times not to be vulnerable, so he chose, and I can't say that I blame him, to live his life rather than create it.