People Forget Years And Remember Moments.

When I Was Teaching At Harvard In The 1970s, I Went To Project Incorporated In Cambridge And Took Photography Classes. I Didn't Even Know How To Aim The Camera In Those Days.

If You Could Have A Book Called My Favorite Six Stories, I Don't Think I'd Have Trouble Doing That.

I Don't Write About Things That I Have The Answers To Or Things That Are Very Close To Home. It Just Wouldn't Be Any Adventure. It Wouldn't Have Any Vitality.

Clouds Are Poems, And The Most Moving Poems Linger On The Blackboard So Long, Written In Cursive So Lovely, They Also Exist Inside Our Fingertips. We Never Really Erase Them At The End Of The Lesson.

I Think That I'm Serious, But I Don't Think That I'm Inordinately Bleak.