I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

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.

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

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.