Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

It's not plagiarism in the digital age -- it's repurposing.

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.