The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supers….

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women..

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own action….

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized….

Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted..

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine..

Soon it will be daybreak. Soon the day will break. I can't stop it from breaking in the same way it always does, and then from lying there broken; al….

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole..

For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be — or no, already sh….

A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water..

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish ….

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired….

She wasn't ready to settle down, she told her friends. That was one way of putting it. Another was would have been that she had not found anyone to s….

Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the w….

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishnes….

The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a da….

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet..

When demons are required someone will always be found to supply the part, and whether you step forward or are pushed is all the same in the end..

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome..

In my dreams of this city I am always lost..

Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea..