We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.