Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Movies are too literal.