Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Timmy, who made a daring escape, also made a mistake of paying the taxi driver with a check made out of toilet paper.
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.