I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Short stories amount for the most part to parlour tricks, party favours with built-in snappers, gadgets for including recognition and reversals

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.