Most people are quiet in the world, and live in it tentatively, as if it were not their own.

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

Movies are too literal.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.