I Never Wanted To Be A Pundit.

Words Make Another Place, A Place To Escape To With Your Spirit Alone.

Wordstruck Is Exactly What I Was—and Still Am: Crazy About The Sound Of Words, The Look Of Words, The Taste Of Words, The Feeling For Words On The Tongue And In The Mind.

Yes, After Some Time Spent Last Year On Other Commitments, Most Of Them Speaking Engagements, I Am Now About Halfway Through A Novel That I Hope Will Come Out In 1998.

You Learn, Just As You Learn Good Manners, How To Approach Things With A Certain Amount Of Diplomacy.

After I Became A Citizen, I Felt Freer To Say What I Thought About This Country, Both Negative And Positive. I Think I Had Been, Consciously And Subconsciously, Biting My Tongue In The Past.