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

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

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.

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

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.