In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.
Rare are the people who can capture a human being.
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
Well, I quit smoking three weeks ago and I had a hard day today not smoking.