You can take that needle out of my leg now. I'd like to pull up my pants.

Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

You've got to keep things flying.

They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

Things may never be the same again.

That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

...we can only add to the world, where we believe it ends, more parts similar to those we already know (an expanse made again and always of water and land, stars and skies).

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.