If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

Everything that I write comes when it wants to, out of its own need and it dictates its form. I don't say, "I am going to write a novel."

Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.

I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet.

I wish somebody had told me love does not die, that we can continue to receive and give love after death.

I'm most tired after I read, after I've just done a performance, but what I try to do is to fuel and eat a really healthy meal before I perform. I want to have enough energy to talk to that last person.