诗歌是危机状态的语言。
作家不能仅仅是一个讲故事的人;他不能仅仅是一个教师;他不能仅仅是一个娱乐者。他必须是所有这些,甚至更多。
在数学中,提出问题的艺术必须比解决问题更有价值。
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.