Teaching Is A Good Distraction,

The Translator's Task Is To Create, In His Or Her Own Language, The Same Tensions Appearing In The Original. That's Hard!

The Essayist Has To Follow A Certain Intellectual Pattern. The Novelist Has The Advantage Of Using Fantasy, Of Being Subjective.

I Am Very Interested In What Has Been Called Bad Taste. I Believe The Fear Of Displaying A Soi-disant Bad Taste Stops Us From Venturing Into Special Cultural Zones.

My Only Fantasy About Writing Was That In My Old Days, After Directing Many Masterpieces, I Would Write My Memoirs.

All Of My Problems Are Rather Complicated - I Need An Entire Novel To Deal With Them, Not A Short Story Or A Movie. It's Like A Personal Therapy.