I've Done As Many As 20 Or

Anyone Can Express Himself Or Herself, But What Writers And Poets Want To Do In Their Work, More Than Simply Express Themselves, Is Communicate.

You're A Beautiful Drunk, Daughter. But You're A Drunk.

It's Possible, In A Poem Or Short Story, To Write About Commonplace Things And Objects Using Commonplace But Precise Language, And To Endow Those Things—a Chair, A Window Curtain, A Fork, A Stone, A Woman's Earring—with Immense, Even Startling Power.

I Am A Cigarette With A Body Attached To It

A Little Autobiography And A Lot Of Imagination Are Best.