I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

I think I am the greatest fighter in any class.

I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

‎The past is always an invented land.

I'm crap at lying. I go bright red.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.