I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

Dreams are an insight into our psychology: they are what we are, but stripped of the conventions and norms of psychology, and the rules of the physical world…

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

You know, you get into the business of commercial photography, and that's all you do is photograph what you know. That's what you're hired for.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows up your true situation and it helps you cut through it.

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed.