movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.