I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

We have a huge struggle for our sense of what a democracy is. We're not living in reality when we think we have some sort of democracy. We're really on the edge. We have two presidents who lost the popular vote but won the election. This is not working.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.