Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.
Being a single woman is like going off to war.
. . . the air seeming to gather around her like held breath. As if this whole place were a story about her.
Before I was a vegetarian, I traveled to South Africa and hung out there for a little bit. And they had different animals - did you know different parts of the world have different animals? Because I didn't until I got there! This is what being an American is like. You're like, "Every place has these animals. "
It's been so long that I think I was unsettled by the idea of feeling like I belonged anywhere. But you made me feel like I belong.
I look at Canada like a second home.
I bake all the time, but I don't like to eat the cookies when they're done. I just like the dough.
Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.
I don't read as much as I'd like. I've been writing a lot. I've been doing a lot of music, but I don't read as much as I should. I just don't.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
It seems like a necessary balance to life, being part of the community.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.
I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
Travel is like a university without walls.
Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.