a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

Time has told me less than I need to know.

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

When in doubt tell the truth.

The same way that I practiced the violin, the same way that I practiced my dance moves, I decided that I was going to practice being positive and practice loving myself.

It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.

I like that you let yourself be surprised

Our democracy is the centerpiece of who we are as a nation. And it is the fondest hope of all Americans that we can help bring democracy to every corner of the world.

I spent all my youth with horses.

Throwing water balloons wakes you up!

I feel really lucky that I love my job. I really do.

Taste in comedy, like fashion, changes all the time.

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.