No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

I've listened to and know Allen Ginsberg music and met him a couple of times, but I don't have any strong statements to make.

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for yourself.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.