I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.