The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss
I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.
...Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women’s reformations.
Sometimes we have to go wrong to go right - Acheron
There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
It may be those who do most, dream most.
It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.
My first influences were superhero artists.
The rain fell like dead bullets.
Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.
I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
