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I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me. '

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Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

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Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

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I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

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Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

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There's a huge amount of work on Adam and Eve, from the ancient world to the present. Saint Augustine was obsessed with them. I don't know if it helps my research, but I get a big kick out of Mark Twain, who wrote "The Diaries of Adam and Eve. " He wrote very funny stuff on them. I sometimes read things that are loosely related to what I'm thinking and writing about.

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The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind.

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