Writing Is An Incessant Process Of Discovery.

As An Artist, You Have The Job Of Working Out Whatever Is Given You To Work Out.

In California In The Early Spring, There Are Pale Yellow Mornings, When The Mist Burns Slowly Into Day, The Air Stings Like Autumn, Clarifies Like Pain - Well, I Have Dreamed This Coast Myself.

If You're Imaginatively Responsible To The Place You Live In, You Understand The Watershed.

When I Came Into The Job, Funding For The Humanities At The Federal Level Was Being Drastically Cut. This Was The High Tide Of The New Republican Congress.

I Thought It Was Irrelevant To Talk About What A Wonderful Thing Poetry Was If You Didn't Teach People To Read.