I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.

So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.