I want to live my life, not record it.

If you produce one book, you will have done something wonderful in your life.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.