Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

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

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

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

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

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