In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.
Freedom costs you a great deal.
One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.
The world is out of shapewhen there are hungry men.
Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don't. No matter what anyone pretends.
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
My dad and some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could. I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time, but still, the concept that there's a great land of opportunity out there, and all you have to do is go attack it, was not something foreign to me. It's why I'm one of the few members of my family that left home.