It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

There is no person without a world.

I never really got over the fun of making letters.

I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.