I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

Trauma, and certain important experiences, can imprint on us at a genetic level.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Science is claiming ever more ground from popular stories of the kind we thought we weren't to believe in.

We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.

Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.