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“I rewrote the ending to ‘Farewell to Arms,’ the last page of it, thirty-nine times before I was satisfied.” —Ernest Hemingway theparisreview.org/interviews/482…

Listen to this interview and poetry reading with VQR contributor Mark Wunderlich on The Hive Poetry Collective Collective podcast’s latest episode. anchor.fm/the-hive8/epis…

Well I just gave testimony at my first school board meeting and the guy after me tore off his mask in the room and called out “MY BODY MY CHOICE”

“The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.”~Michael Ondaatje

Whoever decided to put Leonid Andreyev's photograph of his son on the cover of Vintage's edition of William Maxwell's "They Came Like Swallows" had a bad idea. Doesn't really say "Illinois."

“Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.” —W. H. Auden

Habits gradually change the face of one’s life as time changes one’s physical face; & one does not know it.—Virginia Woolf, diary, April 13, 1929

"My thoughts were pale and thin. They lay in rows of little cots, fingering the bedclothes.”—Abigail Thomas.

" . . . nothing imparts the mystery of creation as potently as the flicker of a darting emerald lizard or an eerie parade of cats prowling through a spookily deserted village."—M. Dargis

"The Japanese toilet is, I must admit, a bit inconvenient to get to in the middle of the night, set apart from the main building as it is; and in winter there is always a danger that one might catch cold. But as the poet Saitō Ryoku has said, “elegance is frigid.” —Tanizaki J.

Something always spoils a party, monkeys or rain.—Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

From a friend: “Flown for three hours over Mar-a-Lago.”

“I have never kept a journal. The unavoidably self-conscious tone of a journal is inappropriate to ongoing writing.” —Wright Morris theparisreview.org/interviews/216…

"As Yeats said, 'As I altered my syntax, I altered my intellect.'” —Wright Morris

As a favor to a friend, I just read a chapter in Painting the Inhabited Landscapes," and fell upon "piscatorial cosmopolitanism." I owe her a favor now.

The best fragrance description I've read since sometime before: " . . . synthetic floral with a base note of trickle-down economics." Zap! (by Ruth Whippman in today's NYTs).

Have fun with my single-sentence piece in Third Street Review . . . third-street-review.org/nonfiction/#st…