My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

I was reading all these male writers who were doing wild and wonderful things. It gave me permission to experiment.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.

To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

Maybe all pain in the world requires poetry.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.