Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!

In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.

It is the psychic depression of decadence which has come to this place and time. It is what happens to people who ignore their artists and deny their children. It is a terminal case of involutional melancholia which comes from within and cannot be cured by T.V. or psychotherapy or anything but a creative life, which is hard to come by in a country where it doesn't pay to do anything for yourself.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

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

It's love and the capacity for love that distinguishes one human being from another.