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Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

I think one probably absorbs things like a sponge and things emerge without your always being aware of it.