We Are Continually Shaped By The Forces

I Don't Like That Word [memoir]. Whenever My Publishers Have Wanted To Use It, I've Told Them To Take It Away.

To Feel Estranged From Language Is To Lose Your Own Body.

What Matters Is Not How Well You Can Avoid Trouble, But How You Cope With Trouble When It Comes.

I'm Not A Boy-writer, I've Never Been. I Wanted To Be A Boy-writer When I Was Young, And I Think That Held Me Back. I Wanted To Be Very Clever, And Funny, But I'm Not Very Clever And Not Terribly Funny. I've Finally Accepted My Limits, And I Do What I Can Do.

You Can Survive Only If Nothing Is Necessary To You