I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far from you, a language far from you, but suddenly you're there. You're that person, seeing with that person's eyes. I think that's really tremendous. Even things like cinema or more traditional history can't quite do that.

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

Even with protection, even with death threats, I can publish, I can travel and I can live the life that I want and not the one my parents want or some imam somewhere thinks I should live.