I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.

Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.

In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material.

I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.