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

I lived in New York for a couple months. It seemed to me at first an incredibly clean place with well-dressed people and washed cars and bright-painted red-and-yellow streetcars and white buildings.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

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

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

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.