I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.

These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.