A teacher is a person who never says anything once.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.
Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals
I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
That so much of our experience, or the stereotype which passes for it should be dealt with by means of the short story is perhaps a symptom not unnoticeable elsewhere in the public domain of an unlovely cynicism about human character.