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I have this belief that if you have an idea, and you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

I think lots of ideas are sometimes in our heads without us quite, you know, knowing it.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.