Words, however, are things..

Listen to presences inside poems..

I'm not cutthroat. I'm Midwestern..

There is never only ONE of anything in nature..

I'm such a diva on set..

Loving somebody is the beginning of everything..

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get..

I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I ….

You can change an outfit, you can outfit change, or both..

We get things wrong before we get things right..

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me..

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: ….

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?.

A country does not go bankrupt..

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land..

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. The….

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom..

I want to be the next Gisele Bundchen . Everything she does, who she is, what she's done, she's just amazing..

The '60s were an amazing time..

I've never been particularly maternal..