Games are nature's most beautiful creation

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.