I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.