I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers.

Manage the downside; the upside will take care of itself

Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse.