For the most part, it's a world of artists that are very in their own heads.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

Magic obeys only the heart of the one who uses it. Your magic would always be a kind magic, because you are kind, I can tell. Please stay and help us.

You don´t have to win the game, play until the others get tired.

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

The Gospel of transformation is from men and women of earth to men and women of eternities.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous