“I wanted it to be about this man's survival.”
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“I'm very taken with the notion that there's a kid in every adult.”
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“These lists began at random as a way to kill time at work, launched one day when early one morning I got pissed off about a coworker telling me, 'Good morning.'”
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 “The next morning, I decided I would write a ghazal.”
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 “I wanted to imply, in the title, that this was a calm time compared to others, that the waves came and went.”
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 “It seemed to occur in slow motion, a boozy explosion that might have gone unseen at first.”
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“I often write as things happen, and I’m especially drawn to strangers.”
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 “Everything I’ve happened to write comes from language and in this case I started with the line, 'Should the phone ring I will answer it.'”
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 “I'm hyper-conscious about what I think the poem is attempting to do, which creates a whole new set of problems.”
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 “Los Angeles has little tolerance for aging females.”
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 “I opened a new screen on my laptop and started a voyeuristic relationship with this couple who had some complicated body issues of their own.”
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 “I am not striving to write a particular book, I think. Any book will do, so long as I haven’t written it before."
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“The best words and sentence and paragraphs tunnel inside me, and only the fever of making something new can get them back out.”
“What a lovely, rare thing it is to be able to share a consciousness with some other human being.”
“It’s not hard to write a poem. What’s hard is writing one that matters, that might, somehow, for someone, last.”
