Nobody has ever looked at me the way he’s looking at me at this moment. Like I’m his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he’d break both their legs and an arm for good measure.

Women always have some mental reservation.

Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators. All of a sudden, you have to walk, no matter how far or how high up.

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

Somebody tell my fam I got a gambling problem.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.