Confronted with the choice the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10 000 people.

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

Poetry is like a bird it ignores all frontiers.

In particular the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

When I was in the White House I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30 000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial but in victory.

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.