We're all just a part of this large, spiraling, constantly fluid hierarchy and changing. At some points in your life, you feel crushed by that, depending on who you come in contact with.

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.

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

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.

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?

The real rich people doesn't have bank accounts, they have treasures.

Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?

Death says a million words that the heart can't pen.

My Dad is my hero.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.