Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.
My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.