I'm always astonished by the confidence my readers put in me.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.
I have the same problems that everybody else does.
After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.
They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.
Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.
I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.
I generally unwind by having dinner with close friends.
Sacred cows make very poor gladiators.
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.
Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
