I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

The value of life is best appreciated by those who have only a short time to live.

I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

I saw the logarithmic growth of computer power.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

I like to think of myself as a natural gardener.

I think women make the same mistake with me all the time. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

I eat the same foods but half the quantity.

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

I am an American. I love this country.