Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste.

What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover…

The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

All these books are published in Heaven.

I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there werent too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.

Our spoken word first hammers a thing desired into shape. Our continued spoken word brings this shaped substance forth and clothes it with a visible body.

I always had this romantic notion of living in New York. I just felt like, everyone could be different and weird and whatever they are in New York.

My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.

If I keep breathing, then I have to keep living, and if I keep living, then I have to keep hurting, and I can't - not like this.