A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.

Leo Crowley, Harry [Truman]'s Foreign Economic Administrator, tells Congressmen the theory...: 'If you create good governments in foreign countries, automatically you will have better markets for ourselves.' With that honeycunt staring you in the face, you'd forget your grammar too.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

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

I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

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