If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep...An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

Toyland, toyland . . . once you pass its portals you may never return again.

I hated the soup and felt little for the can.