I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

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.

Why you are searching for love all over the world, when inside you resides an endless ocean of love?

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

Life with books makes my world complete.

I love having my hair back. It is so important to how you feel, how you dress, how you look.

A secret makes a woman woman - Vermouth

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won.

Even when it comes to writing fiction, how do you encompass all this stuff that's right on the tip of your tongue? You have to fold that into what you're working on.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.