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'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

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.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.