So, I went through life constantly practicing this model of disciplinary approach. Well, I can’t tell you what that’s done for me. It’s made life more fun. It’s made me more constructive. It’s made me more helpful to others. It’s made me enormously rich.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that's what makes you a winner.

纯粹的作品意味着诗人作为言说者的消失。