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….

The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark, growing stronger, a….

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

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..

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

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

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….

I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do..

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved..

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink..

I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not your cornfield, not your uranium….

The powerful don't make revolutions.

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals..

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….