History Is Where Tensions Were.

I Think There Was A Revolution In Poetry, Associated Chiefly With Eliot And Pound; But Maybe It Is Of The Nature Of Revolutions Or Of The Nature Of History That Their Innovations Should Later Come To Look Trivial Or Indistinguishable From Technical Tricks.

Writing Is Like The Relationship With Your Bowels. First You Can, Then You Can't. Finally, You Must. Only Then Should You Reach For The Paper.

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely; And If You Surrender Your Personal Responsibility To A Government Which Promises To Take Care Of You, They Will Only Take Care Of Themselves.

When You Write It Doesn't Occur To You That Somebody Could Think Different From What You Do.

I Have A Plot, But Not Much Happens.