For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
Life's too damn funny for me to explain.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella
Contemplation is an alternative consciousness that refuses to identify with or feed what are only passing shows. It is the absolute opposite of addiction, consumerism or any egoic consciousness.
I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.
Many writers and artists portrayed the poor sympathetically, and even fought on their behalf, but they themselves were not of that class. Gay life is perhaps even more subject to ambiguity, since it so often involves crossing classes.
I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!