"Round and round the circle Completing the charm So the knot be unknotted The cross be uncrossed The crooked be made s…"

"I don't belong to any generation."

"Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is alrea…"

"All that I can hope to make you understand Is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever…"

"You are all people To whom has happened, at most a continual impact Of external events. You have gone through life in…"

"This is what matters, but it is unspeakable. Untranslatable: I talk in general terms Because the particular has no la…"

"You isolate the single event As something so dreadful that it couldn't have happened Because you could not bear it. S…"

"Hold tight, hold tight, we must insist that the world is what we have always taken it to be."

"I see more than this, more than I can tell you, More than there are words for. At this moment there is no decision to…"

"Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."