If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.