Writers turn dreams into print.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

No idea is ever dead until those who believe in it say it's dead.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Creative geniuses are a slap-happy lot. Treat Them with respect.

A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man who will never see it again.

It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.