The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

My hole is warm and full of light.

Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'

I am nobody but myself.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.