I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.

No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

When you gone to get married? You need to have some babies. It’ll settle you.' 'I don’t want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

Something that is loved is never lost.

They had stared at her with great uncomprehending eyes. Eyes that questioned nothing and asked everything. Unblinking and unabashed, they stared up at her. The end of the world lay in their eyes, and the beginning, and all the waste in bewteen.