“I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the subu...”

“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”

“It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since...”

“I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just we...”

“I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.”

“I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give yo...”

“I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.”

“I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically...”

“We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that...”