I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.
I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.
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'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.