The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.