Occupation: Poet Birth: November 18, 1939
Why do men feel threatened by women?.
Under the old system - which is now so archaic that a lot of people can't remember it - if you wanted money you had to go to the bank and take the mo….
In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge..
I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting..
Plato said that poets should be excluded from the ideal republic because they are such liars. I am a poet, and I affirm that this is true. About no s….
Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe i….
Life's not fair; why should I be?.
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling..
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radicall….
Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like….
There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being ….
I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle al….
We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction..
It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are ….
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word..
You fit into me like a hook into an eye a fish hook an open eye.
I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself..
We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice..
A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women..
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the i….
I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife..