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In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.
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The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.
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Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.
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There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.
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I do a lot of coaching with my friends on how to get out of relationships with their agents, boyfriends, contractors, whatever, because that's easy for me.
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Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience and the young empower the old with new life, reweaving the fabric of the human community as they touch and turn.
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I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
