I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used it in a poem, but it's really not right for that poem, but I wanted it, that would be distorting.