“I like Math because there’s only one right answer.”

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there’s a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

When you get pure joy out of ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’ or ‘seeing,’ that’s when you realize how big and unexplainable some things are and being a dad is one of those very few things.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now?

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

It’s strange, people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can’t even answer it.

People, when they come up to me, are like, “Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?” And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

So I suppose the answer is I see myself in all my characters, in their best moments and in their worst.

The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer to this question.