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.

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.

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.

Cora didn't know a whole lot about wendigo, but there were ways in which they were just like people: they wanted above everything to live through the night("Stay")

I love fools who don't know they are fools but hate fools that know they are.

I like dramas and stuff. That's what I watch, but it seems weird that I'd be in it.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

I'll always be thankful for what I have right now. I feel that it's been a blessing. But I know my time will come. It's just the way life is.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Would you have your songs endure? Build on the human heart.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.