I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.
“John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.”
“To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.”