Rachel Zucker Quotes

I really, really fear head injuries. But when people hit their heads in movies or fall down - I can't stop laughing.

I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

I'm fascinated by but afraid of animals.

I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

I like the way the prose and poetry interact.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

I have no lover, not even my love.
I have no other, not even I.

as I travel the city / hating poetry & my haircut & all the things I do not / want to do

I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.

I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.

Penises are literally all around me all the time, and have a lot of influence on the world, on my world.

I'm in a hard place now. A very silent place. And I'm struggling to either accept this or drag myself out of it.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should.

Writing on the subway or anywhere is writing. Maybe it's all just writing.

In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice.

Usually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.

It's hard for me to find humor in my current non-writing situation.

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.

I'm even afraid of kittens. They bite too! But I respect animals.

Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.

Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

Very little of my time is spent thinking about poetry, except the time I spend in class.

I love food too much - not because I'm fat but because it's so consumptionistic, etc.

I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

I think humor and terror are very closely related.

I HATE HALLOWEEN. This makes me VERY unpopular.

a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.