I read a lot of poetry. I read some history.

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

I always want to read Gore Vidal's nonfiction. Because everything he writes is an essay and it's worth reading.

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

I don't think I want to write a third book. But the more people talk to me about it, the more I think maybe I do.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

I always had good students.