It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real.

It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.