I think humor and terror are very closely related.

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.

There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.

I love it [a career as an actor] to bits, but it's highly bizarre, especially when you're playing a psychopathic rapist with various diseases.

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

Once you learn how to do something, you don't lose it. Unless you die.

It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.

There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.