I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will