One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

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.

What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

By doing that [ saying no boots on the ground], she [Hillary Clinton] has empowered the enemy, she's empowered the enemy.

A man who was loved by 300 woman singled me out to live with him. Why? I was the only one without a cat.

People love to get scared. People want to see the worst thing that can happen.

Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves.

You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.