It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.