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.

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.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

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

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

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

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