Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.