Technology is transforming everything. Who knows what it's doing, we don't really understand it.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

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

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.