Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

School should be eleven months of the year.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

If I can't do what I want to do, then my job is to not do what I want to do. It's not the same thing, but it's the best thing I can do.

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.