“You know I don't really understand much of my poetry myself. Of course, I was convinced I understood it when I wrote it!”

“I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.”

“Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry.”

“I don't like to think of myself as a 'virgin'. I prefer to think of myself as 'sexually incomplete'. You know. Like I haven't finished the course yet.”

“Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry. I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line.”

“I write to understand as much as to be understood.”

“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.”

“I hope they understand that I really understand
That they don't understand”

“I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.”

“I don't miss you, still I will take a car to be with you. I don't know you, of course you think you know me.”