Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

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.

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

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

Women are the flower in the garden of humanity.

There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

My best work is always done... when I'm experimenting. If I stop experimenting I feel it just becomes a drudgery.