I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.