I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.
I'd call it love if love didn't take so many years but lust too is a jewel.
Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.
The moment when a feeling enters the body is political. This touch is political
A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
Love, our subject: we've trained it like ivy to our walls.
He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.
Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.
I've never wanted to be the hottest star. I always wanted to do good movies.
Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.