History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.
Is birth always a fall?
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained.