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

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way you speak changes you, because when you are speaking, you are representing yourself in a certain way.

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.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.