At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
A writer's job is to tell the truth.
You never monkey with the truth.
Truth, also is the pursuit of it.
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Light is the symbol of truth.
Skinner: [to Linguini] Welcome to Hell.
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
A lot happens by accident in poetry.
I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.
Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
