I Left Princeton, But I Graduated Harvard,

I Think Situations Are More Important Than Plot And Character.

Translation Is The Paradigm, The Exemplar Of All Writing.... It Is Translation That Demonstrates Most Vividly The Yearning For Transformation That Underlies Every Act Involving Speech, That Supremely Human Gift.

You Make Something. You Give Up Expressing And Start Inventing.

What I Said About John Was That He Liberated Me From My Anxieties About Writing In A Correct, Acceptable Way.

Syntax And Vocabulary Are Overwhelming Constraints --the Rules That Run Us. Language Is Using Us To Talk --we Think We're Using The Language, But Language Is Doing The Thinking, We're Its Slavish Agents.