When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

And so the ordinary unendurable torments we all experienced were indeed exceptional in the way they were absorbed in each heart.

I have been everywhere because I don't know what I'm looking for.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.