The truth is the light and the light is the truth.

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

And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first northern winter had set.

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

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.

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