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

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

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

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

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

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.