The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.

For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins - the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.

In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.

True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks.