People are laughing at me today for having holes in my pockets, and ink blood on my fingers- a thirty-something old writer, who strangles words from dictionaries, and feeds on the decay of poetry.

Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Do not attempt too much at once.

Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Les te moins sont fort chers, et n'en a pas qui veut. Witnesses are expensive and not everyone can afford them.

Even as a kid I would find the one person whose attention I didn't have and I would zone in on that person. It became a challenge.

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.