I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.

My obsessions tend to cluster, so I often have families of poems in which only a couple of them make it to the book. It can be satisfying to banish poems to my "crappy poems" file.

I tend to employ braided narrative threads in the lyric, so often echoes (of phrases or images) will occur and will hit my ear so I can shape different resonances and shifts in tone.

Many of the poems weave autobiographical elements with fabular or mythic materials.

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

The truth is, you are your own “special someone,” and loving yourself is the first step to finding love outside yourself.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.

Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.