 Life has no beginning, middle or end. |
| At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. |
| Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine? |
| I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. |
| If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed. |
| The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write. |
| I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. |
| I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real. |
| I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered. |
| I knew Anais Nin, who called me after I had been away for a few years. She was seeking help because at that time no one would give her a decent review. She was made fun of. |
| All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. |
