Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

I have closely noted that people who watch a great deal of TV never again seem able to adjust to the actual pace of life. The speed of the passing images becomes the speed the aspire to and they seem to develop an impatience and boredom with anything else.

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.