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

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.

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

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Anything is grand if it's done on a large enough scale.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

You must always know what it is that you want.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

I don't see myself getting married again, but if I do, it will be forever.

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.