To me, magic is everywhere.

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.

My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot more writing to do on this.

I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

I wish to be a cat. I like to imagine I was a cat in a past life.

I love indices! They are poetry in and of themselves, depending on the book.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."

Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.

Don't sell the warmer for an air conditioner just because its summer, for in winter, you will have to do the reverse.

The power of the mind is the strength of being.

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Lose yourself wholly and the more you lose the more you will find.

Once you start recognizing your own obsessions, you know you’re getting old.

Form follows beauty.

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.