People will be able to judge for themselves.
I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.
It has been my experience that the people I judge most harshly are the ones in whom I recognize some part of myself.
New York at night, from its bridges, is a miracle. When I first came to the city, it took all my fantasies and set them on fire, turned them into flickering constellations of light.
The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.
Abandonment by a lover won't kill us. But it awakens the parts of us that remember when it could.
I was in the fantasy. I was selling myself on the fantasy as I was doing it. It never occurred to me. I did take notes, but just because I am a writer. I've been a writer since I was five. You don't have any sort of outlandish, shocking, extraordinary, horrifying experience without writing it down, because I know and knew that you forget things. No matter how outrageous and amazing and extraordinary and seemingly unforgettable an experience is, it's kind of like a dream. It will erode inevitably, for me.
The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.
Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.