My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.

People who are too uptight make me nervous.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

I think e-mail and social media and all that has made me feel way less isolated than ever before.

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.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.