America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.