Just think of it as a very, very long pen.

I think of this as a democratizing device.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

The thing about delirium is you think it's great, but it actually isn't.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.