Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.

We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry.

Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

Sometimes my characters are not myself.