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

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.

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

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.

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

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