I've read a lot more than most of the people that I know, except for one of my really close friends reads way more than I do.

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.

THE RIGHTPOEM FINDS US EXACTLY WHEN IT NEEDS TO.—ATTICUS

Pick a mentor. The role of a mentor is to monitor your movements. When you desire to move the positive way and you connect with someone who thinks the negative way, you can’t get there!

Dream of dreamers!

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.

I've always been a ... believer in good regulation.

We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment to us, as we are for him.

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

There is no treasure equal to contentment and no virtue equal to fortitude.