Translation Is The Paradigm, The Exemplar Of

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.

Write About The Things That Attract You. Choose Your Subjects The Way You Used To Choose Your Toys: Out Of Desire.

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

It’s True, I Had An Extremely Delicious Life, But That Was My Life At Home, And Perhaps Because I Was Only A Child, Or For Whatever Reasons, I Found The Company Of Others, Especially Other Boys, Quite Terrifying And Upsetting.

After The Navy, I Transferred To Harvard And Finished There. I Was There The Spring Term Of 1951 And I Stayed Through The Summer Term And A Whole Other Year, So I Was Able To Do Two Years In A Little Less Than A Year And A Half.