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

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

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.

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.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.