Memoir Is Not An Act Of History

When You Do Try To Picture The Boys Who Do Ask You Out, They're Absolutely Featureless, Like Old Carvings Eroded By Centuries Of Rain And Wind.

Poetry Is For Me Eucharistic. You Take Someone Else's Suffering Into Your Body, Their Passion Comes Into Your Body, And In Doing That You Commune, You Take Communion, You Make A Community With Others.

I Always Say That A Poet Loves The World, And The Prose Writer Needs To Create An Alternative World.

A Dysfunctional Family Is Any Family With More Than One Person In It.

He Never Gave Up On Me, I Only Stopped Being Matriculated.