Quotes from Kevin Sessums

We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse.

I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly.

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

To some people, knowledge and science are everything. To me, God is everything I don't know.

I've done every other thing in life except intimacy. That's the aberration, the thing I've never had.

I am a theist. I live life between that "a" and the "t." It's a vast little space.

I talked to [Larry] Kramer a little bit about it while I was writing 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was one of those people who took a long time to come out.

Love? Hmmph. It ain't never 'nuff in a crooked-letter state like this.

I never appear in any of your work, come to think of it, Calvin [Trillin]. And I look.

I think it's a Jewish Yale custom. I wasn't aware that other people celebrated Christmas. My wife was very big on Christmas, and I was very big on my wife.