If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for Elizabeth, just one more way in which she used symbolism to solidify her reign: appearing as the Virgin Queen, for example, or wearing a dress embroidered with eyes and ears to indicate that she knew all that was going on in her castle; she had spies.

I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant.

I think those of us who use language are always trying for this, trying to keep everything from floating away by trying to write about it despite failure.