I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control.

Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.