The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

I write with all my heart