If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

I'm an amateur, so I read what's interesting to me.

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

I always had good students.

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.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.