We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
Home is where your books are.
Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.