I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

Sometimes it is better to say ‘no’ and lose your job than it is to say ‘yes’ and lose your soul.

Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

What always gives me peace of mind is that the best are the best. People who float to the top will always float to the top.

I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it.

You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.

Who remembers everything about somebody?

The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .

Boxing's given me the chance to travel around the world and open the door and the world is much brighter.