I Thought To Spend My Declining Years

You Must Have A Certain Amount Of Maturity To Be A Poet. Seldom Do Sixteen-year-olds Know Themselves Well Enough.

Singularity Shows Something Wrong In The Mind.

The Older We Get, The More Jewish We Become In My Family.

Writers Are Doubters, Compulsives, Self-flagellants. The Torture Only Stops For Brief Moments.

It Is A Sad Paradox That When Male Authors Impersonate Women ... They Are Said To Be Dealing With 'cosmic, Major Concerns' - But When We Impersonate Ourselves We Are Said To Be Writing 'women's Fiction' Or 'women's Poetry.