I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.

I've been reading a lot lately about Indian captives. One woman who had been captured by the Indians and made a squaw was resentful when she was rescued because she'd found that there was a lot more work to do as the wife of a white man.

You can take off your hats now, gentlemen, and I think perhaps you'd better.

Few people have written significant books about San Francisco. Robert Duncan was, in my opinion, often in the clouds. If he walked the streets a lot he didn't write about as such.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.