I came to poetry because I felt I couldn't live properly in the real world.

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was doing. The lines seem pulled on either end, tight and taut against the wind.

Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.

I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has been written down even before one has committed a crime.

At the heart of my life is the idea that I don't ever want anything to ever change. That's the basic tenet.

Every thing is changing every minute.

Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness there is also the success of others.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

The fact is, the heart and mind aren't always friendly. And in my case, they're barely speaking.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I had a desire to do TV and wanted to get in, in the right way, knowing that I was going to learn a lot, along the way.

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.

If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

That was the absolute worst catch phrase I've ever heard in the history of Monday Night Raw.

Whenever possible, steal code.