I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.

I'm 100 percent Jewish by blood, but by education I'm nothing. By affiliation I'm nothing.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

When I'm not writing or reading, I'm thinking about both.

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.