Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

I was no good at being a child.

Literary critics make natural detectives.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.