Some creative writing programs SEEM evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the OPPOSITE, where I FEEL like they were really good at focusing in on each writers VOICE and setting. When I FELT like I was obligated to write a story that was more typical, no one really liked it.

You BURNED the CITY of LONDON in our HOUSES and we FELT the flames.

In the past I have declined to COMMENT on my own work: because, it seems to me, a POEM is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the AUTHOR is the person LEAST able to consider his work objectively.

We NEED LESS PERFECT but more FREE FILMS.

When I TURNED 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my OPINION. So I've been THINKING all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to GET some stuff DONE.

I THINK CHILDHOOD is to EVERYONE a LOST LAND.

I THINK the JOB of WRITING and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're LIVING in a STORY.

We would LOAD up the yellow Cutlass Supreme STATION wagon and PICK blackberries during blackberry season or SPRING onions during spring onion season. For us, FOOD was part of the fabric of our day.

Why is it that right-wing bastards ALWAYS stand SHOULDER to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals FALL out AMONG themselves?