All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about your friends, a plot element if it's about a character in a novel, and scholarship if it's about John Keats.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

In high school, in 1956, at the age of sixteen, we were not taught "creative writing." We were taught literature and grammar. So no one ever told me I couldn't write both prose and poetry, and I started out writing all the things I still write: poetry, prose fiction - which took me longer to get published - and non-fiction prose.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away.

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed