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

It's hard to read real fiction. It takes time. It takes a sustained attention.

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.