Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

I blundered into writing.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.