It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.

I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee.

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.