For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.