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I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together.

I liked television, and television liked me.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton.

I liked the Ballarat train as a child.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

I liked the books I read that said things like 'I shan't'. I would try to find a way to say in my life, to reply, 'I shan't do that, mother.' That was so far away from my barrio world.

I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.