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.

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.