Paul Will
Paul Will
napoleon people
I'm a little brother. I've always been small. People have said I have a Napoleon complex. But I've always had to fight for everything that I have.
funny-things space interesting
In my life, I've lived in very different kinds of places - very tiny rooms when I was young. And you do learn to cope with it. The funny thing is, as you begin to inhabit larger places, it's very interesting how quickly you adapt to your space. What seems enormous at first becomes natural after a few weeks.
always-be-happy seems
It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
i-can
I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.
tables pay way
I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.
shopping clothes stores
I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.
architecture discontent
Dismantling the architecture of my discontent
denial rooms groups
Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in the room can point to the culprit, the only sane course of action is denial.
essentials storytelling form
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count.
painting collapse
Paintings. Or the collapse of time in images.
mystery significant sentences
In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.
what-matters matter trouble
What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
technology men cells
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
passionate littles reason
For one reason or another, I became a passionate reader when I was very little. As soon as I could read, I wanted to read.