I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count the waves.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.

I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.