 Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. |
| Southern California, where the American Dream came too true. |
| It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something. |
| No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them. |
| The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. |
| And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war. |
| We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. |
| They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves. |
| I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American. |
| The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. |
| Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back. |
| We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. |
| I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here. |
| Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. |
| Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. |
| These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it. |
| Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s. |
| It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power. |
| The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates. |
| I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. |
