Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

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

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a bad question to ask oneself.

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

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

You are bound, my hunch is, to make it just fine.