Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Lonely was much better than alone.

It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.