The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

it is forbidden to love where we are not loved

At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

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.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain