“I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate pr...”

“But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.”

“I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.”

“The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.”