I have always maintained that translation is essentially the closest reading one can possibly give a text. The translator cannot ignore "lesser" words, but must consider every jot and tittle.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

A translator is essentially a reader and we all read differently, except that a translator's reading remains in unchanging print

Teaching translation is more of an editing job. You act as editor. But you can have fun with it.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me.

From age eleven to age sixteen I lived a spartan life without the usual adolescent uncertainty. I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world, and there was nothing else.

Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

It's time for me to step up and take control. That's what I've always been used to.

If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

When everything else falls down around us, just knowing that there's another person who will miss us when we're gone is enough to see us through our darkest moments.