Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

My main strength as a young writer was that I had no fear of making mistakes. I knew I would and I knew I could and would learn from them.

Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.