In my generation, it was a career-killer.

I visited the Indian mounds. I used to walk the beaches at Pinellas Point.

When you go back into the ice age, you're tapping into our species. It's philosophic, it's religious, it's scientific.

I've spent my entire career being a satirist.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.