Seorang intelektual adalah orang yang mengatakan hal yang sederhana dengan cara yang sulit, seorang seniman adalah orang yang mengatakan hal yang sulit dengan cara yang sederhana.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.
I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
Anda membenci orang-orang? Saya tidak membenci mereka... Saya hanya merasa lebih baik jika mereka tidak berada di sekitar saya.
We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.