I will never understand the appeal of the Hawaiian pizza.
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.
Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
I dont want to just play gay characters,. . . I think it would get boring to play the same thing again and again and again.
Writing is the thing that sustains me and keeps me going. It is a form of self-preservation for me.