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

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege.

If you feel a bump on page one hundred, it may be you went off on page fifty.

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.