I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.