I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

Personally, I'm kind of swirling in this hurricane of virtual reality because of 'Ready Player One.'

I am not afraid of mass media.

You want to make an impact and show what you're about.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.