I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way, ” said Roark.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!

It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.

In the custom of mourning, the fabric of the night had been ripped, revealing a star at each tiny tear.

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.

Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.