My Idea With My Work Is Always

I Can Tell From About 20 Yards Away When Someone Has A Manuscript For Me. I Can Just Tell - They Have That Look.

I've Always Wanted To Be A Poet At The Beginning. I Would Look At My Grandparents' Books And My Parents' Books. And In My Family, A Typical Aspirational Jewish Family, Being A Writer Was Very Much Exalted, And It Seemed Impossible To Me, That I Could Ever Do Something Like That.

My Idea With My Work Is Always To Fashion Something That's Impossible To Transpose Into Any Other Media.

I Think Of Memory As A Game, That Is As Something One Engages In With A Very Profound Kind Of "playfulness."

I Always Thought Of My Work As Being Animated By A Spirit Of Unhinged Generosity.