many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

Never hope for it more than you work for it.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.