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When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

I've never been in any country for more than four years, and I'm learning different languages all the time. It gives you a different attitude.

I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way, you're surrounded by the buzz of humanity, but you aren't distracted by people's conversations.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.

When you work in a different language you are not so attached to the words.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

It is much easier to learn another language when you are young, enthusiastic and unembarrassed.