A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Let your heart look on white sea spray and be lonely. Love is a fool star. You and a ring of stars may mention my name and then forget me. Love is a fool star.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

Poetry is a shuffling of boxes of illusions buckled with a strap of facts.

What if they gave a war and nobody came?

I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."