The screams of a hurt woman were indistinguishable from everyday traffic.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Something that is loved is never lost.

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.