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

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

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

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

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

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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