“We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.”
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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
There is no method but to be very intelligent.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.