What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.