I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

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.

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

Life: another day, another dolor.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.

There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Contentment is better than divinations or visions.