When there is conflict, it's good to step away, even for five minutes, because you could say terrible things that you can't take back, so it's best to walk away.

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months.

As Aragorn said at Helm's Deep, "There is always hope."

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

That is to say, Hillary Clinton is not, in my mind, a satisfying or calming alternative to Donald Trump.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.