Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.

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