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

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

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

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

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

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.