Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.