We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.