Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes.

When you get over the anxiety, you discover you should have been mad a long time ago.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Who am I to decide if he is worth my love or not when I can't even...

I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

The love of a man for his wife, his child, of the land where he lives and works, is for me the real meaning of mystical experience.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

I hate that rule that says write about what you know, it leads to too many British novels about marriages going slightly wrong. Write about what you don't know, just act as though you do.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

I picked up the guitar at 11, but even before then, I was writing songs on the organ.