Governance can dig itself into a huge hole and not even know it's in there.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.

When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

I never know who's influencing me at any time. I mean, I can take a play by Brecht and adapt it, I'm consciously adapting that play, or, as I've done with the Greek classics, Euripides and Oedipus, and I'm consciously adapting that play. Whether it influences me or not, I think it's the critics, the analysts who have to decide that. Me, I don't feel that I'm under the influence of any such sources.

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption.