Rachel Zucker Quotes

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

I have a complicated relationship with non-human animals. I've never really been close to one.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.