So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.