Absence - that common cure of love.

On the other side of attraction$$$ is repulsion.

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

It is good for a man to invite his ghosts into his warm interior$$$ out of the wild night$$$ into the firelight$$$ out of the howling dark.

Poetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own$$$ but one does not like anyone else's.

Life is like music: it must be composed by ear$$$ feeling and instinct$$$ not by rule.

Change is the one unavoidable$$$ irresistible$$$ ongoing reality of the universe. To us$$$ that makes it the most powerful reality$$$ and just another word for God.

I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful$$$ a feminist$$$ a Black$$$...an oil-and-water combination of ambition$$$ laziness$$$ insecurity$$$ certainty$$$ and drive.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

Tell me your Dreams and I'll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I'll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!