Movies Are Too Literal.

Poems Have Ideas. The Ideas Of Poems Come Out Of Their Emotions And Their Emotions Are Carried On Images.

If You Feel A Bump On Page One Hundred, It May Be You Went Off On Page Fifty.

Every Major Work Of Art Is A Transgression, But The Artist Is Not Necessarily, By Nature, A Transgressor.

There Is Music In Words, And It Can Be Heard You Know, By Thinking.

A Writer's Life Is So Hazardous That Anything He Does Is Bad For Him. Anything That Happens To Him Is Bad: Failure's Bad, Success Is Bad; Impoverishment Is Bad, Money Is Very, Very Bad. Nothing Good Can Happen... Except The Act Of Writing.