Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read.

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

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.

I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

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

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.