My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
“I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.”
“I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.”