If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study gave me a draft deferment. But I also knew I lacked erudition and polish and was… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
If you're famous and supposedly wise, it's always a good idea to have a tape recorder in the room. Never can tell when you… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
I can recall photographs of Comrade Ulbricht being embraced by Comrade Brezhnev, which must have been like putting your arms around Grant's Tomb. — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic,… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
If I wanted to be Rimbaud, what was I doing in graduate school? Trying to stay out of the army, of course. Graduate study… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
Now, past middle age, with so many books written I still care about and only a few still in print, I know the feeling… — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
My own father used to boast to me of biting off a man's ear in a street fight. — Richard Elman Copy Share Image
