I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

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

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

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

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.