As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal preferences.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

We are incarcerating more people on a per capita basis in California than any country in the world other than South Africa or the Soviet Union.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

Looking at her is like waking up.