I keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

The joy of working at something to find out what it means to me is what I grew up with.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now