“I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed.”

“My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.”

“I'll call for pen and ink and write my mind”

“Women and our right to choose were going to be challenged with Ashcroft around. When Bush appointed Ashcroft, I went out and got me four abortions. I stocked up. The doctor was like, 'Listen, you're not pregnant.' I said, 'Hey, just shut up and do your job. I'm exercising my right while I can, dammit.”

“And god damit,I can barely say your name,So I'll try to write it,And fill the pen with blood from the sink.”

“Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the '50s — they made perfect sense.”

“Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over. ”