Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It’s the author’s story, the author’s voice.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

Rage is to writers what water is to fish.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

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.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.