I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.

We live in such a digital age. Paper is going out of our lives. A poem on paper is tangible.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.

People say an Oscar validates your career. No, it doesn't. There's more good actors without Oscars than there are with Oscars.

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.