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

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.

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.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking