When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.