A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.