To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake.