I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

I've got no interest in going over to California to fight that boring git, in a fight that no one's interested in, and that's the reason why he's trying to pimp himself out everywhere.

Any woman is sexual, absolutely.

Working with Bryan Cranston on Breaking Bad has been totally thrilling because he is so clear in his approach.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

I was a complete outsider in high school.

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.

All cats love a cushioned couch.