And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.