I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.