I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

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

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.