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

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

Writing is a lonely business.

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

Spiritual matters should be private.

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of who we are.