I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.

I do not play the instrument In longing but in quest Not to be undertaken Not to be lost In a forest of bliss.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.