Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.