I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost everybody is a poet, but scarcely anyone can write a poem.

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't