In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.