1. A true confession: I believe in a soluble fish.
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
2. In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
3. One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.
The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs
4. Poetry is an orphan of silence.
5. Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
Dime-Store Alchemy
