“In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year.”

I didn’t get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Four turnovers. Two assists. I told him he’d have the game ball if he had taken care of the ball a little bit better.

Shot fakes and ball fakes work. No one uses more than Wisconsin. It’s amazing how many people don’t use them

I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which ‘sexism’ is too facile a term. It is really an intellectual defect, which might be termed ‘patrivincialism’ or patrochialism.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.

There’s been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I’m speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing.

For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity.

I believe love just happens once. You can be mistaken, you can think you are in love.

Everybody saying Guerrero, I’ll really turn your ass into a real ghost.

And then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.