Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

He stops, looks up at this window, and I can see the white oblong of his face. We look at each other. I have no rose to toss, he has no lute. But it's the same kind of hunger.

The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.