Religion Is Like An Ice Cold Whiskey

Never Write About A Place Until You're Away From It, Because It Gives You Perspective. Immediately After You've Seen Something You Can Give A Photographic Description Of It And Make It Accurate. That's Good Practice, But It Isn't Creative Writing.

Pound's Crazy. All Poets Are.... They Have To Be. You Don't Put A Poet Like Pound In The Loony Bin.

Paris Is So Very Beautiful That It Satisfies Something In You That Is Always Hungry In America.

Why Should Anybody Be Interested In Some Old Man Who Was A Failure?

If A Writer Stops Observing, He Is Finished.