It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
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.
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.