Sometimes I feel like I'm on top of the world, and other mornings I feel like crap.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

I was sort of obsessed about corporate people committing suicide.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

I am always reading, always, and tons of things at once. I wouldn't say I'm a voracious reader, though. I never finish books that fast, because I'm always reading so many things at once.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.

And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.

For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

Take a seat, Charlie, ” he said. “I’ll kill you in a few minutes. It’ll be good for you.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

Give the people - confidence. Give the people - delight. Give the people - hope. Give the people - the best.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

As a midwife, I am immersed in Oxytocin day and night.

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.