You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasnt going to support me.

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.