Dana Goodyear Quotes

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay to be a regular person and be really into food.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

I'm a total foodie.

Food is a lens for culture.

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional ... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

I love trying new restaurants.

Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.

Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

I stayed with you inside the room, as the warm white walls became a womb.