Poems Have Ideas. The Ideas Of Poems

I Like Commas. I Detest Semi-colons — I Don’t Think They Belong In A Story. And I Gave Up Quotation Marks Long Ago. I Found I Didn’t Need Them, They Were Fly-specks On The Page.

Every Major Work Of Art Is A Transgression, But The Artist Is Not Necessarily, By Nature, A Transgressor.

Communists Have No Respect For People, Only For Positions.

We Are Able To Walk On Air, But Only As Long As Our Illusion Supports Us.

There Is Really No Fiction Or Non-fiction; There Is Only Narrative. One Mode Of Perception Has No Greater Claim On The Truth Than The Other; That The Distance Has Perhaps To Do With Distance - Narrative Distance - From The Characters; It Has To Do With The Kind Of Voice That Is Talking, But It Certainly Hasn't To Do With The Common Distribution Between Fact And Imagination.