There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

The second time around I'll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn't care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.

Winners are the ones who want the most out of their opportunities.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote 'title' of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.