To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

暴力留下的伤痕永远无法完全愈合。

希腊人理解事物隐藏面的神秘力量。他们留给我们语言中最美丽的词之一——"enthusiasm"——en theos——内在的神。

"Poetry is the establishment of being by means of the word."

I don’t really have studios. I wander around around people’s attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.