"Well, my relationship to America at the time I left was very limited." ― Harry Mathews Topic(s): Relationship More From Harry Mathews "My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I’m not kidding." "Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest." "I’d been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches." More In Relationship "I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It’s always one atom away from being a tragedy."― Chris Cleave "However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance."― Tim Murphy "Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods."― W. H. Auden