The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want.

There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.