Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight. Equilibrium is pragmatic. You have to get everything into proportion. You compensate, rebalance yourself so that you maintain your angle to your world. When the world shifts, you shift.

I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.

can only write about what bites you.