Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Humor is an antidote to isolation.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

Can one consider controversy without falling into it?

what society requires from art ... is that it function as an early warning system.