If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I have that principle or not.

If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published.

Someone will always want to mobilize Death on a massive scale for economic Domination or revenge. And the task, taken As a task, appeals to the imagination. The military is an engineering profession.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

Images are not quite ideas, they are stiller than that, with less implication outside themselves. And they are not myth, they do not have the explanatory power; they are nearer to pure story. Nor are they always metaphors; they do not say this is that, they say this is.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.