For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers.

I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over.

It's not like I hate gay people.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”