You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.

When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.