Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!