Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.