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

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

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.

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

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.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

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