Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

One cat just leads to another.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.