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.

I usually feel something before I know it.

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

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