There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

Art is a crime scene in a sense, a crucible, of the mind and heart and our dreams.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

My first sense of myself was as an artist, a painter. I would see a Van Gogh painting and just love it, the more emotional and passionate the more it attracted me.

Am I the I she tried to save, still lopsided with trying to be a little less or more, escaping who I was a minute ago?

As a poet and a teacher, I read all the time. I know I read slowly. I like reading, but I don't read any more than I have to.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Your real beauty is hidden in your heart.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.

Fabio Capello needs to nail his hammers to the mast.

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.

I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, which are not archives, which are not sold or prepared even.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity