I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.