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

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

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

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

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.