School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.
Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.
Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.
[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay attention. It keeps you from being bored, and I might add it keeps you from being boorish.