Marilyn Hacker

Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.