Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

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

A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is bad; impoverishment is bad, money is very, very bad. Nothing good can happen... Except the act of writing.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

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

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.