James Dickey

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.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

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

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.