My Rejection Of The Idea Of Entertainment

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.

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.

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.