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

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

When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

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

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

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