And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

We are less lonely when we connect. Art is connection.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.