Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

If someone in my family is getting emotionally bent out of shape, I've had to learn to adapt.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

Domesticity has been a challenge for me but painful as it's been, engaging with family has been a school for reducing solipsism and increasing my understanding of people's different reactions to stress.

Indeed, at times it's best to shut up.