“He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was...” — W. S. Merwin Quote

He said you should write about 75 lines every day. You know, Pound was a great one for laying down the law about how you did anything.

The Arab world is erupting, which is extraordinary, and to see it happen is like watching rings spreading on a pool - it goes out; it varies so much. The spontaneity is wonderful, but very often, if it's not well organized, it breaks up, and it peters out.

I go five steps in the garden, and I immediately lose track of time... it is a kind of joy in being alive in being in the world. I always found that in the garden. That is what it means to me.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.

I have so many comics laying around the house and I've never been great at keeping them organized.

Actors are really vulnerable. They're like laying themselves out for you, and you can serve them or not serve them. And in moments of true vulnerability it can get hard. It's all hard.

At the end of 'God of War III,' after laying waste to Olympus, Kratos leaves and, for me, goes on this really long wandering pilgrimage.