"I’ve learned that the only way to get through life is to laugh at it."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."

"I think that the most important thing a writer can do is to be honest."

"The world is a cacophony of voices, and it's the writer's job to make sense of it."

"Books are not just for reading; they are for living."