A lot happens by accident in poetry.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

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

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

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

We think about sex obsessively except during the act, when our minds tend to wander.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.