A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.

The end of life evokes the errors of it, and a fellow wishes he had known better.

At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them.

Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.

'I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so dear to th…

At present, I am a poet trying to be a soldier. To tell the truth, I am not interested in writing nowadays, except in so far as writing is the expression of so…

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…