I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.