Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.

I’d been listening to men talk since I arrived in New York City. That’s what men like to do. Talk. Profess like experts. When one finally came along who didn’t say much, I listened.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

What one thinks is right is not always the same as what others think is right

Forgive everyone for everything, and sleep with a clean heart!Good Night Universe!

You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.

Oh, to be a center fielder, a center fielder- and nothing more

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise