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

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.

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.

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

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

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