if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.

But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.