Like Any Good Shaman, Professional Baseball Player,

Spiritual Matters Should Be Private.

If You Teach Kids How To Tell Stories, They Have A Better Chance At Everything.

What Inspires A Poem For Me Is Usually A Moment.

In A Sense, You're Always Mythologizing Your Life; It's Always An Effort To Make Yourself Epic. At Least In Fiction You Can Lie And Sort Of Justify Your Delusion About Your "epicness." But When You're Writing A Memoir, You're Trying To Make Your Life Epic And It's Not - Nobody's Life Is.

I Feel Like A Carton Of Eggs Holding Up An Elephant.