When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.

With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, "No, that's what the symphony is costing me."

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.