"I wanted to break the linearity of poetic text — to mess with it, if you will. The poem is meant to be a network rather than a single rope of thought."

"But a theory is not like an airline or bus timetable. We are not interested simply in the accuracy of its p…"

"She got convinced in her crazy head that I had sex with this girl in Columbus, Ohio...and I did, and I'll t…"

"Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never ch…"

"I do think if I had given him two fence-rails to sleep on he would not have found fault. That was Abraham L…"

"You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering…"

"It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's g…"