I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. I repeat this to myself but it conveys nothing. You might as well say, Don't let there be air; or Don't be. I suppose you could say that.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.