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

You might 'write from the heart,' but you'd better polish with your brain.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

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

Marshall McLuhan is absolutely right, we are always looking in the rear view mirror.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.