With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first.

Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.

The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.

Living in literature and love is the best thing there is. You're always home.

To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.

Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.