One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

History marched to the drums of a clear idea...

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.