I Left Princeton, But I Graduated Harvard,

I Was Stationed In Norfolk, Virginia, For A While, About Which The Less Said The Better, And Then I Was In The Mediterranean, About Which The More Said The Better.

My Dream, I Remember, When I Went To Boarding School, Was To Have A Study All My Own, A Little Nook Someplace Where Nobody Could Get At Me - Nobody, Like The Football Coach.

Write About The Things That Attract You. Choose Your Subjects The Way You Used To Choose Your Toys: Out Of Desire.

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.

There Are Many Things I’ve Written That I Didn’t Really Understand Until A Long Time Later.