When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.

It was great fun writing a book.... It built an impalpable crystal sphere around one of interests and ideas. In a sense one felt like a goldfish in a bowl; but in this case the goldfish made his own bowl. This came along everywhere with me. It never got knocked about in travelling, and there was never a moment when agreeable occupation was lacking. Either the glass had to be polished, or the structure extended or contracted, or the walls required strengthening.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.