If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.