The Art of Poetry No. 68 (Interviewer) Issue no. 130 Spring 1994 “I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.”
The Art of Fiction No. 128 (Interviewer) Issue no. 122 Spring 1992 “In general, I distrust philosophy. Plato recommended chasing poets from the city; the ‘great’ Heidegger was a Nazi; Lukacs was a communist; and J. P. Sartre wrote: ‘Any anti-communist is a dog.’”