As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Translation is the art of failure.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.