Only when the clock stops does time come to life

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual's individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.