Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

If you can't create, you destroy.