When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!