Anything Can Happen, on the other hand, is not only about the atrociousness of the September 11 attack, it is also a premonition of the deadly retaliation that was bound to come.

The next move is always the test.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.