If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

You learn to write by doing it.

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.