I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

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

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.