"I'm not interested in being popular. I'm interested in being free."

"The greatest danger to freedom is the absence of a joke."

"People often ask me what I think about the internet. I think it's a great place to find cat videos."

"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it from going to sleep."

"A writer’s life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don’t have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it."