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Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.
I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.
It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.
If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.
I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.
That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise.
..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I'm really a flight animal.
If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.
the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.
I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.
There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.
Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.
Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.
To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.
There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.
Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.
I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.
What are you that makes me feel thus? Who are you for whom time has no meaning?
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.
The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.
…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.
I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.
Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.
I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.