We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
“I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.”
“I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.”