The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

What you see and what you focus on has a profound impact on your behaviour.

Does it really hurt? Loving?

If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

The most fun characters to work with are characters that are complicated.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

The primary role of professional societies is the lobbying of the government for special advantage