it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.