I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

I'm interested in someone who's mired in grief: how do you get back to that thing that makes them warm? Because you know that's in there.