It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.