There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

I am nobody but myself.

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

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete form of a man. In something that gives a focus to all the other things he knows to be real. Something that makes unseen things manifest and allows him to come to his hopes and dreams through his outer eye and through the touch and feel of his natural hand.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.