I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I write the way I perceive, I guess.

The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

Because a poem is not written while running or while answering the phone. It's written in whatever minutes one has. Sometimes you have half an hour.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.