I think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.

You can never have too much sky.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.

You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

You don't have to be the specialist on everything. You can try to inform yourself.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."