I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.