You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

I knew I was in England by the smell.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.