I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

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.

one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us

We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.

Is not Justice just a nice way to say revenge.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.