I shall gain glory or die.

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

The next move is always the test.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.