Americans are cool if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. Theyll pat you on the arm and say, Hey kid, youre all right. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical. – Bear Grylls
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. – Jack Prelutsky
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. – Laurence Housman