A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.