The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

I lived in the studio apartment that I bought for four years before I bought it in 1989, so I was already in it. I began living there in 1985, so I've had the same address and phone number since then.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Poetry dovetails contradictions.