Whether you want to call it God or the mystery of the cosmos doesn't matter to me.

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I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

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The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.

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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

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Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.

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If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

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I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

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