“I feel pretty good about it so far, but it's been a little harder to write than I'd hoped.”

“I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.”

“I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world.”

“I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad.”

“My thoughts are really all I think about.”

“Holding me, as it were, within the infinite hope of your plausibility.”

“The problem with this poem, from your perspective, must be its lack of financial value. I guess my problem with you, from my perspective, is how you insist on putting a financial value on everything.”