You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.