Poetry is this gorgeous, complex history rendered in verse and song, a blueprint that can lead you back into the world after you've walked into air.

I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.

I think that if someone told me I could have been a visual artist, I might have been a visual artist instead. And if I'd known I could have done art history, I would have done that. But I just didn't know.

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

I didn't know I was cool, but I was very flattered that some of the younger comedy writers came up to talk to me at the Emmys. I found that gratifying.

My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie.