The poet will not be satisfied with recording, the poet will have to transform.

I have no idea what happens next.

My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.

Sometimes we forget that if we do not encourage new work now, we will lose all touch with the work of the past we claim to love. If art is not living in a continuous present, it is living in a museum, only those working now can complete the circuit between the past, present and future energies we call art.

There are voices and they must be heard.