Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is unconfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers tempramentally do not crave comfort and convenience - if they did they would live elsewhere.

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.