I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy