'In an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.'
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'But if a stranger in a train asks me my occupation I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer 'poetry' would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.'