I have my books and my poetry to protect me

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

We had many more points of agreement than we had points of difference, but we did differ, and the bigger we got, the more insistent we got that each one of us should have his way.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

...what threatens us today in the world of computers and other invasions of privacy is not a national ID card but a number of other things.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.