Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.

Sometimes I feel certain that the hyenas are laughing at us.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

No one is exempt from grief.

Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.