In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust and the consequences of it. Well, I find it terribly boring, predictable and unimportant, because what matters about literature is esthetic achievement.

If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.