My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach

The edge of the world is always the next step when you're blind.

Growing up, I knew where the world ended. I could see it, at the horizon, where the sky touched the corn. My life was bounded and known. I *knew* the edges of the world. And then I went to college.

Some girls feel they are like boys, They play rough, they like a lot of noise.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

Live in the moment. Feel everything you want to feel. And maybe have a couple of drinks if you're nervous, I guess.

We're not going to pierce everything that we have and paint our faces trying to get a different market. We'll grow with our audience. We're just going to keep doing what we do.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.