In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and that’s why I read now that I’m a scared adult.

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

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

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.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

I hated childhood / I hate adulthood / And I love being alive.