“I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's jus”

“Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.”