Re-Examining Quotes

Normally, you should be dead if you have a retrospective.

I very seldom read back into what I've written.

Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

You ask people, 'should we go back to square one?' People don't want to do that.

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.