Life has no beginning, middle or end.

I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.

I try to teach my students style, but always as a part of life, not as ornament. Style has to come out of communicating coherent thought, not in sticking little flowers on speeches. Style and substance and a sense of life are the things literature is composed of. One must use one's own personality in relationship to life and language, of course, and everyone has such a relationship. Some people find it, some don't find it, but it's there.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

Don't blindly follow any leader.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.