You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.