I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

I'll think of you, just like I promised.""And I'll think of you, just like I have every day, " Tamani said.

Good wins in the end because evil is a self-destructive, cannibalistic force that Inevitably engorges upon itself.

Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.

Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.

You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.

It is best not to have been born at all: but, if born, as quickly as possible to return whence one came.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.