A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated.

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.