And I Finished College Because

Music Had Been My First Love Among The Arts, And I Was Fascinated By It, As I Still Am.

Syntax And Vocabulary Are Overwhelming Constraints --the Rules That Run Us. Language Is Using Us To Talk --we Think We're Using The Language, But Language Is Doing The Thinking, We're Its Slavish Agents.

I'd Been Brought Up On The Upper East Side In A Wasp Society, Which Was Death On Crutches.

I Think Situations Are More Important Than Plot And Character.

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.