The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.

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

Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?

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.

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