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.

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 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.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

The United States has a long tradition of preserving the all-American outdoor experience, dating back to the days of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.

God is for men, and religion for women.

Frustration is not the way to go.

The majority of Americans, the ones who never elected George W. Bush, are not fooled by his weapons of mass distraction.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.