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.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.

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