I have a wonderful editor who believes in fiction and poetry. She herself is a novelist and poet.

If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read. But a writer will work anyway, as I do, and as I have, in part to explore this terra incognita, this dangerous ground I seem to need to risk.

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.

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

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

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

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.