I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.