The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

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.

I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

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.

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

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