Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.