I've never stopped learning..
In the beginning, everything was even money..
For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to aski….
Listen to presences inside poems..
America was built on her citizens..
I don't really like Nirvana that much. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre..
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowsh….
I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them..
God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied..
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and one that I hope wi….
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it i….
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, Concerning the Natur….
The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; mayb….
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the righ….
The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create..
A smattering of everything, and a knowledge of nothing..
I am happy being what I am..
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with B….
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance and history, and to establish….
There are days when I double fault..