Sometimes you have to abandon your own children for other children.

I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.

I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.

Blessedness is within us all.

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

Pissing in a river, watching it rise.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.