Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

It is brave to be involved

What shall I give my children? who are poor, / Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land...