Translated literature can be fascinating. There's something so intriguing about reading the text second hand - a piece of prose that has already been….

My marriage has worked because I am not around much..

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything..

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, whi….

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind..

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling..

How can you live in the Northeast?.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated..

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relent….

I like to do something I fear..

The things which must be must be for the best..

I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me qui….

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find..

One must as willingly be nothing, as something..

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there….

If Russia were to do something that it could do, it looks like it might even be preparing to do, to invade Ukraine and essentially to dismember it, t….

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on.

I'm only interested in poetry..

the history of melancholia includes all of us..

Whom the gods notice they destroy..

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything..