I never stopped reading.

The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.