There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.

The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.

Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own.