...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.

I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.

being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

I want what I want when I want it.

She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.

I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.

When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

We've lost our moral foundation, which allows us to go this far over. So I don't blame Trump. I just think he is what he is. We're the ones who let that happen. We should be looking at ourselves.