Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

I've had an unhappy life, thank God.

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.