I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.