Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

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.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.