What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.