"Andthen I smiled, yes as despicable as it may sound, my initialreaction was to be remarkablypleased"
"I was, in four and a half years, never an american; I was immediately a new yorker"
"I can assure you that everything I have told you this for happenedmore or less as i have described"
"Then pretend. Pretend I am him"
"A fireflybumpingrepeatedly against the window of a house, unable to comprehend the glass boring its way"
"Do not be frightened by my beard; i am a lover of america
"My days of focusing on the fundamentals were done"
"But why are you reaching into your jacketsir? I detect a glint of metal. Given that you and I are bound by a certain shared intimacy, I trust it is the holder of businesscards"
I attempted to act and speak more like an american
