People "confess" can be wildly different. I might go into the confessional and say, "Father, what is my obsession with miniatures?"

Writing directly from a feeling of anger or sadness is difficult, but if you distract part of your brain with word games, the ignored emotion often tiptoes in.

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never giving a straight or definitive answer.

I'm interested in concrete poems - anything that complicates the line between the written and the visual.

Not everyone is going to like every carnival ride.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

Poems can't help but be personal. Mine are certainly an accurate blueprint of the things I think about, if not a record of my daily life.

Erasures are interesting to me because they prove what particular sieves we all are.

Teaching is a great way to keep learning.

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Wherever I am in the world I want to be creating new projects and innovations, which are exciting and make a difference to communities.

I love working in the theater.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that.

Differentiate with value or die with price.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.