I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.