The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

Time passes. That's for sure.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.

Tears are pouring down my cheeks like tiny rivers, soaking my shirt with dark patches of my salty happiness.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation.

I was married to the number one douchebag of all time.

For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.