I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography - but if you write you…

The day I became a poet was a sunny day of no particular ominousness. I was walking across the football field, not because I was sports-minded or had plans to …

I'm just as human as you. But it's no use asking me for a final statement. As I say, I deal in tactics. Also statistics: for every year of peace there have bee…

Uccello cello cello I love myself.

Why do I have this imagination? It's the only one I've got!

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.