Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

I appreciate my my sleep In sleep my conversation is witty My home is dusted My office work is up to date The dog is even well behaved And food is on the table on time But then when I'm asleep I don't have you to clutter and confuse My hungry heart

We all have our muses. My grandmother and my mother are the people I write for. I'll never have to worry about who buys my work, or who likes it, and who doesn't. The people who I want to be proud of me already are.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.