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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.