If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

I think most people dont like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly dont want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl

I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.

When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.