Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.