You have to believe in yourself before the world has given you any indication that you should believe in yourself as a writer.
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
Sooner or later, all games become serious.
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery. . .
Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.
Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
There is a sense in the tree which feels your love and responds to it. It does not respond or show its pleasure in our way or in any way we can now understand.