Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.
Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.
The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.
I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.
It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
When you're trying to do character work that's different from what people expect from you, you're sort of in territory that is uncharted, and you don't know how it's playing all the time.
Women should be obscene, not heard.
Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.