"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels."

"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."

"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real."

"I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time."

"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

"Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?"

"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English."