You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

I love to eat and I love sweets... like chocolate. But I do work out.

All history is contemporary history.

No money, holes in my socks, living off oatmeal.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.