A Pool Game Mixes Ritual With Geometry.

It Strikes Me That Whatever Advantages There Are To Being A Boy--getting To Stay Out Late And Having Other People Wash Your Clothes And Bring You Plates Of Stuff--get Undercut By Having To Play Football.

I Was 40 Years Old Before I Became An Overnight Success, And I'd Been Publishing For 20 Years.

For Me, Everything's Too Much And Nothing's Enough.

Poetry Is For Me Eucharistic. You Take Someone Else's Suffering Into Your Body, Their Passion Comes Into Your Body, And In Doing That You Commune, You Take Communion, You Make A Community With Others.

I Get So Lonely Sometimes, I Could Put A Box On My Head And Mail Myself To A Stranger.