When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.

DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.