"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck."

"Old women snore violently. They are like bodies into which bizarre animals have crept at night; the animals are vicio…"

"It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, …"

"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or w…"

"When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life."

"Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality."

"When poets — write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful prepara…"

"If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?"

"Prose — it might be speculated — is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is p…"

"Nothing is accidental in the universe — this is one of my Laws of Physics — except the entire universe itself, which …"