People think the gold medal is yours and they say you're going to win - but they have no idea how hard it is. People aren't doing it negatively - they're mostly lovely and they really do want you to win - but they don't understand the difficulty and intensity of competition.
“What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.”
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”