“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

“Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”

“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.”

“you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.”

“I changed my mind about not saying what I think. If you let people walk over you while you’re young, you should get used to wearing feet marks across your face for the rest of your life.”

“I tell me:Let these words be footsteps, because I have a long way to travel. Let the words walk the dirty streets. Let them make their way across the crying grass. Let them stand and breathe and pant smoke in winter evenings. And when they're tired and have fallen down, let them buckle to their feet ad arc around me, watchful.I want these words to be actions.Give them flesh and bones, I say to me, and eyes of hunger and desire, so they can write and fight me through the night.”