Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

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.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don’t admit it. (13)

These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Let me get a big 'hell yeah' from the redneck girls like me, hell yeah.

You're not learning anything unless you're having the difficult conversations.

We all carry fault within.

I, the fiery life of divine wisdom, I ignite the beauty of the plains, I sparkle the water, I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.