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

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

It may be that the most avid readers of new fiction in America today are film producers, an indication of the trouble were in.

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe.

The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.

The music of the Stones pounds the air like the amplified pulse of my erection.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.