It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I am interested in the movement of my own thoughts and in trying make the poems feel more accurate to experience, including the experience of thinking.

Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers

Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.

To be somebody you must last.

We should work to guarantee that there is a midwife or health worker by every woman's side during childbirth.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on