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.

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

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.

Poetry is God's work.

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

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