If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

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

Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.

I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

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