The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

The past is never where you think you left it.

We have this mistaken notion that everybody in the world has to go to college. The colleges are already crowded with people who never in this world will absorb more than a rudimentary education, and we dilute everything to meet this low standard.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.