I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I like the dance between sustained focus and digression that the long poem invites. A controlling metaphor helps to sustain the long poem.

I'm not incredibly hipster. I wasn't cool enough to handle it.

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

My dear, life rarely gives us what we want at the moment we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually.

Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement.