The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.
If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place.
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.