Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

It's to a younger people's advantage to work with evolving computer technologies that provide so many ways to explore the use and distribution of text, including sound, images and motion.

I do think that the kind of writing that I do will always be around and printed in books, magazines, and now blogs.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.