Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

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.

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

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Dad is always hiding in his book.

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

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.