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.

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.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

What she did not tell him balanced neatly with what she did.

France is, for me, the country of happiness.

When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.

Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

I have discovered the value of psychology and psychiatry, that their teachings can undo knots in us and permit life to flow again and aid us in becoming more truly human.

This is looking tasty.

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.