I've always wanted editors that actually edited my poems.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.

Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.

I think my way of being "funny" is just saying things that people think but have learned not to say, whereas, I haven't learned not to say them.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.