Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

None of us know where our stories come from. That's why writers make fun of people who ask us where we get our ideas... because we don't know.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.