Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging c….

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, pa….

The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel..

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb..

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it be….

Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must g….

I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty..

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life..

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves..

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading sub….

Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and….

On this twelfth day of my diet I would rather die satiated than slim..

We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rat….

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about..

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire..

I think that if you use something from you life in fiction, it metamorphosizes into something strange and different. Afterward it is hard to tell wha….

If I observe my cats carefully, it is partly because I observe everyone I deal with as carefully as I can and partly because they amuse and entertain….

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out..

The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfie….

Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seas….

The work of the world is common as mud..