Writing is a conversation with reading; a dialogue with thinking. All conversations with older people contain repetition. Some of the ideas mean a lot to me, just interesting, so I both embrace and attack the ideas because I found them, well, delightful.

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

I am so hip even my errors are correct

And like an unfaithful mate, once a car has let you down you never sort of trust it again.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.