The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry.

I drink alone in my study, huddled close to the brazier.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

It's perhaps not the future I would choose. I still think it's possible to make a success of both marriage and career even though I didn't. But it's not a bad future. And I'm not afraid of it.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two fools together.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

Whether we call it religion or faith, we all battle for a balanced integrated soul.

That is one more reason why I write in English only right now. I prefer writing in the language I hear around me for the people by whom I am surrounded.