Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

When a child walks in the room, your child or anybody else’s child, do your eyes light up? That’s what they’re looking for.

Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

There is really nothing more to say - except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.