[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.

A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected.

There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

Every creative act is an act of hypocrisy and violence. You may have to think about it for a while, but I am sure you can discover your own.

In the end I would rather wonder than know

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.