You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.

All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.

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