I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Hey, size works against excellence.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

I'm loving 'We Are Young,' by Fun. Really gets the morning rockin' to a great start.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.

It is not the return on my investment that I am concerned about; it's the return of my investment