Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.