I thought, after the Pulitzer, at least nothing will surprise me quite that much in my life. And another one happened. It was quite amazing.

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.