Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Seeing yourself as responsible for the quality of your relationship, as a prime mover in your life, I think is a bold, amazing step.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.