Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.

One writes in order to feel.

No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.

Flight is intolerable contradiction.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.