A lot of manuscripts that come in, you wonder by what outrageous fantasy the author believes that this should be pressed into print.

When I was a boy I was my father.

T.S. Eliot's influence was enormous on my generation. Much more than Ezra Pound. I actually had to put T.S. Eliot books out of the house because my poetry was so influenced. Everything I wrote sounded like Eliot.

The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and it’s the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then it’s a failure in communication.

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

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.