In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves.

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.

Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Where were the calls for a no-fly zone when Israel attacked Gaza

I don't have children - yet! But I can imagine a love so potent that you would give your life for them. To give your life over to something else outside of you, that's love.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

Let he who would move the world, first complete an environmental impact assessment and a 90-day public comment period.