"Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go."

"I think it's most important for children to understand the concept of respect and manners and also work ethic. I have a responsibility to those who came before me."

"I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual."

"If you want to experiment, do something temporary."

"In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now."

"Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse."

"I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form."

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."