"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."

"To be a writer is to be a criminal. To be a writer is to be a transgressor. It's to be someone who goes across the line."

"The only people who are truly free are those who can laugh at themselves."

"I like books that are a little bit dangerous."

"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."