I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before you hopped into bed with a writer.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time.

The confusion created by mode of fictitious imagery, staged to produce a perceived idea of character or life, does only that - confuses.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Pan Am can go to hell.

Play against the Game, not your opponent.

Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.

The readers get younger all the time, and we're getting older.

If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

All of the land of Israel is ours.