I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.