وقتی تنها امتیاز یک مرد داشتن ذهنی هوشیار و بیانی نافذ است، بهتر است پیش از این که دهان باز کند تا از خودش بگوید خوب فکرش را بکار بیاندازد.

I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.

Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

I think there might be some pressure released while I'm doing autobiographical work, but afterwards everything remains the same.

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.