If my love for cats were hydrogen, there’d be enough of it to give you skin cancer if you didn’t wear suntan lotion. The only sad part for me about getting a cat from the...

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?

Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

Literature is language charged with meaning

Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging “Say it new! Say it new!” It’s hard for emotion to feel flat if its language is suitably novel, to...

Genius’ was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to cover all varieties of artistic, literary and musical experimentalism. A useful and readable...