I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.