Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

At least half the country thinks the mascot issue is insignificant. But I think it's indicative of the ways in which Indians have no cultural power. We're still placed in the past. So we're either in the past or we're only viewed through casinos.

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.