Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

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.

This man has talent, that man geniusAnd here's the strange and cruel difference:Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Life is nothing but a few ecstatic dancing atoms.

Throughout this life you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.

We aim to please... You aim too, please.

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.

Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too.