I love doing meta-humor, as long as it doesn't become too distracting and it's subtle.
You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.
All poetry comes from repetition.
The subject matter of the stories on the surface. . . there seem to be a number of stories about travel.
Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation.
It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work.
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show how a man can pass from literature held sacred to action which nevertheless remains that of an intellectual.
The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.
Unfortunately for Hillary Clinton she's a competent politician, which means she seldom says anything in less than three paragraphs. So people like the guy who just goes, "Nuh-uh, no puppet, no puppet, you're the puppet. "