My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized one.

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media.

I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And in my family, a typical aspirational Jewish family, being a writer was very much exalted, and it seemed impossible to me, that I could ever do something like that.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.