“I guess what I meant is that you are better off doing nothing than doing something badly. But the problem is that bad writers tend to have the self-confidence, while the good ones tend to have self-doubt. [1989 interview in the literary journal “Arete”. In response to the question "Your poem ‘friendly advice to a lot of young men' says that one is better off living in a barrel than he is writing poetry. Would you give this same advice today?"]”