I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not talking about poetry here - take years to write, and I am never sure they'll be successful. So writing is a risk in more senses than one.

In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?