A discerning eye needs only a hint and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think that lead us from an innocent world of contentment drunkenness and good humor to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity no humor no overstatement can quite extinguish the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history someone's statement and ideas of life.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history since its statements are rather of the nature of universals whereas those of history are singulars.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

I must analyze from what I do now what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?