70 Quotes by James Dickey

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity....

If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.