I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc..

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing..

I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets….

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing..

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up..

I think humor and terror are very closely related..

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it..

I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's….

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not..

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES..

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it..

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice..

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals..

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should..