Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.

Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998.

And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer.