I understand that it's incredibly difficult to watch what's happening on the news every day and not become inured to it. I've fallen victim to that myself, wanting to look away.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.

One of the things my service in Iraq did give me was this freedom from fear of failure or any kind of expectations that I had to take a standard path.

I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.

To understand the world, one’s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

The world makes liars of us all.