I love the sense of looking at the sad, paltry, and yet very familiar spectacle that we must make from moment to moment in our lives, and in our frenzy, as something that's as out there as alien life.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and forever.