I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.

When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn't get it. I had to wait. I love the idea that I have hardcover books here and at home that I haven't read yet. That's how I view that I'm rich. I have hardcover books I may never read.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.