I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Children are all foreigners.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Liberty: 'Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.'

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.…

All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writin…