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

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.

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.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

You never know how much good you do.

I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible.

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.