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.

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.

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.

Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty.

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

We walk upon the grace of god. Nothing else exists except that.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

Sometimes idiosyncrasies which used to be irritating become endearing, part of the complexity of a partner who has become woven deep into our own selves.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

I don't know how a lot of these nations existed as long as they have till we could get some of our people around and show 'em how to be good and pure like us.