You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.