When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.