There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

I longed to know the world's name.

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."